enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration_of_Ancient...

    Yod (, i with a Semitistic aleph instead of the dot, both yod and alef being considered possible sound values in the 19th century). [ 4 ] Although three Egyptological and Ugariticist letters were proposed in August 2000, [ 5 ] it was not until 2008 ( Unicode 5.1 ) two of the three letters were encoded: aleph and ayin (minor and capital).

  3. Holam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holam

    In the word דֹּאר ‎, the Biblical Hebrew spelling of the name Dor, the alef is a mater lectionis, and in traditional typography the holam is written above the alef 's right arm. In the word דֹּאַר ‎ ( /ˈdo.aʁ/ , "mail"), the alef is a consonant (a glottal stop ), under which appears the vowel pataḥ , so the ḥolam is written ...

  4. Aleph - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph

    Despite the name it does not correspond to an aleph in cognate Semitic words, where the single "reed" hieroglyph is found instead. The phoneme is commonly transliterated by a symbol composed of two half-rings, in Unicode (as of version 5.1, in the Latin Extended-D range) encoded at U+A722 Ꜣ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF and U+A723 ...

  5. Prefixes in Hebrew - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefixes_in_Hebrew

    לַאֲרִי ‎ la'ari (to the lion) לֵאלֹהִים ‎ lelohim (to God) ב ‎ in, on, with, by בְּמֶלֶךְ ‎ b'melekh (in a king) בִּמְלָכִים ‎ bim'lokhim (in kings) בִּיהוּדָה ‎ bihudah (in Judah) בַּאֲרִי ‎ ba'ari (in a lion) בֵּאלֹהִים ‎ belohim (in God) כ ‎ as, like

  6. Mater lectionis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis

    A mater lectionis (/ ˌ m eɪ t ər ˌ l ɛ k t i ˈ oʊ n ɪ s / ⓘ MAY-tər LEK-tee-OH-niss, / ˌ m ɑː t ər-/ MAH-tər -⁠; [1] [2] Latin for 'mother of reading', pl. matres lectionis / ˌ m ɑː t r eɪ s-/ MAH-trayss -⁠; [2] original Hebrew: אֵם קְרִיאָה, romanized: ʾēm qərîʾāh) is any consonant that is used to indicate a vowel, primarily in the writing of Semitic ...

  7. Oyfn Pripetshik - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyfn_Pripetshik

    Vos ir lernt do; Zogt zhe nokh a mol un take nokh a mol: Komets-alef: o! Lernt, kinder, mit groys kheyshek, Azoy zog ikh aykh on; Ver s'vet gikher fun aykh kenen ivre – Der bakumt a fon. Lernt, kinder, hot nit moyre, Yeder onheyb iz shver; Gliklekh der vos hot gelernt toyre, Tsi darf der mentsh nokh mer? Ir vet, kinder, elter vern, Vet ir ...

  8. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols

    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  9. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs

    The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.